The Daily Show Responds to the Viacom suing Google:
Freaking hilarious clip, and looking at the info, it wasn’t uploaded by them, or they “created” a junk account.
This is more a test of how Scribd embeds “documents(?)” in a page. But they where humorous so I though I’d pass them on. I’m having it go to the next page so if there is any funkiness it won’t effect the whole site.
Scribd seems to me to be sort of a Google Doc [...]
- Dilbert comics stolen (approx. 250,000,000)
I’m probably leaving out a few things. The Dilbert comic theft might be an underestimate. I have documentation of 25 million thefts from the Internet alone in the past 12 months. It adds up.
Famous musicians get downloaded a lot. But they don’t produce a new song every day, as I [...]
Arstechnica has a pretty good write up on how the RIAA is freaked out about the Fair Use Act… even though it really doesn’t do enough on dealing with copyrights.
Although the FAIR USE Act introduced yesterday by Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA) and Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA) will have little more than a symbolic effect on [...]
Apple and Cisco have agreed to share the iPhone brand, with Cisco dismissing its lawsuit. (Read Wired commentary.)
A joint statement calls for the companies to work on interoperability between their products and ends a 40-day spat that began shortly after Apple announced the iPhone at January’s MacWorld conference. Cisco, the owners of the trademark, slapped [...]
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A Bartow County couple will go before a magistrate judge today to see if they will be arrested for allegedly stalking a Kennesaw police officer by installing cameras to track neighborhood speeders.
Lee and Teresa Sipple spent $1,200 mounting three video cameras and a radar speed unit outside their home, which is at the bottom of [...]
Pizza dude mistakenly puts weed in night deposit. Gets weed back from teller next day. Teller calls cops. Dude smokes weed. Dude gets off for lack of evidence.
[The News at press-citizen]
I’m sorry… I’m passing this one on just for humors sake… or is it irony.
The longtime treasurer of Alcona County in northeast lower Michigan has been removed from his job and charged with nine felonies for allegedly stealing county money to invest in the notorious online Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud Scheme, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox announced today.
Thomas Katona, 56, was arraigned in Harrisville today after an investigation that [...]
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I can imagine it now. A man starts to get to know his new cellmate:
“So how long you in?”
Man stoic, “Life.”
“So what did you do? Murder someone? Kidnapping?”
“I cheated on my wife…”
Yes… in Michigan it can get you life. So forget worrying about getting caught and having to lose half your possessions, forget [...]
Complaints from the Chinese embassy in Moscow forced an advertising agency to scrap a chewing gum commercial playing on Russian television which featured China’s national anthem as backing music.
China’s People’s Daily newspaper said the commercial for chewing gum produced by Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. using the “March of the Volunteers” had “harmed the dignity of [...]
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